Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog Comment The only way those social networking sites are going to do something about this is if there is "something in it" for them - some reward or benefit. At the moment, it is the exact opposite - blasting out all of those spam "invitations" doesn't cost...
[September 2, 2009, 11:18]
Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog Comment A friend of mine recently accidentally triggered off a flood of LinkedIn invitation requests that went out to everybody he had in ALL of his address books he had collected over 10 years. That email address book mechanism in LinkedIn looks...
[September 2, 2009, 9:24]
Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog Comment Thanks JW - I hadn't covered the "what's in it for me" element and as you say, the way it is now it just helps proliferate the madness. It makes you think how open Jonathan Shwartz was at Sun to open comment on his own blog.
[September 1, 2009, 13:03]
Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog Comment .and another thing. I was only filling out my name and address for my SHELL petrol points card this weekend and got to the email address and date of birth boxes and thought. Hang on! Shell don't need my birthday to give me petrol points.
[September 1, 2009, 11:57]
Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog I only ask because I had a delightfully polite email from a certain Hayley Pinkerfield who is deputy features editor of Media Week after LinkedIn suggested that we’d recently viewed each other’s details.
[September 1, 2009, 8:28]
Friendster investors fall out over patent
News The dating market is lucrative, but less so than the market for corporate recruiting, said Hoffman, a former PayPal executive who funded LinkedIn after eBay bought PayPal. All three -- Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn; Marc Pincus of Tribe.net; and...
[November 12, 2003, 10:20]
Happy birthday OpenSocial!
Blog The OpenSocial Foundation, the group formed to help manage the development community around its open API (Application Programming Interface) standards says that millions of web users are already getting real benefit, with many more OpenSocial apps...
[November 17, 2008, 7:37]
Tweeting for business - can it work?
Blog My tweets extend beyond my 30-odd Twitter followers, most of whom I have picked up word of mouth (or whatever you'd call copying someone you follow by following who they follow) to 100 Facebook friends, 330 LinkedIn contacts, 50 people at Plaxo...
[September 3, 2008, 17:25]
Social networking: the key to advancement
News Sites like Spoke and LinkedIn aim specifically to help users make meaningful business connections. This white paper provides a look at recently developed social networking portals that allow users to create and maintain a network of close friends...
[October 25, 2004, 12:50]
Ten IT flame wars that refuse to die down
Comment Everyone you meet blogs, has a Facebook page, tweets on Twitter, and is LinkedIn. Social-networking fans: "i haz 500 friends. Those who have friends do. Anyone who expected professional camaraderie from IT people might be surprised at the bitter...
[September 4, 2009, 15:44]
VISA helps Facebook to woo small businesses
Blog Business focused sites like LinkedIn and Xing should offer a better capability to network with peers and get access to wealthy new customers, but both have roots set in the technology and media sectors (just because that's where the early adopters...
[June 25, 2008, 13:02]
Facebook and MySpace may seal email's fate
News Cook blogs at MySpace as a way to meet new friends, and she's also on LinkedIn to mine new professional relationships. If I'm talking to any friends, it's through a social network," said Aseem Badshah, the teenage president of Scriptovia.com, an...
[July 19, 2007, 11:04]
LinkedIn’s new apps are all work, but don’t work
Blog LinkedIn adds apps in a move that seems to ape Facebook, but are strictly professional. I am an avid LinkedIn new follower and Google Alerts gives me several stories a day to digest. Recently, I read a few bemoaning the way in which LinkedIn seems...
[November 4, 2008, 7:03]
LinkedIn and the one way street on social graph portability
Blog Has a "cease and desist" notice to a niche social network inadvertently revealed LinkedIn's hand regarding the Social Web and contact portability? I am not one to wash my dirty linen in public, but my company has been on the receiving end of a...
[April 2, 2009, 14:02]
Should Instant Messaging Be A No-Go?
Blog You only have to look at the rise in the popularity of Web sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn over the last 12 months to see the impact that Web 2.0 is starting to have. For example, a user who uses IM to communicate with friends or fellow...
[May 9, 2008, 11:41]
Google previews Friend Connect
News Programme manager Mussie Shore gave the central demonstration, sprucing up a guacamole lovers' site with the ability to let users join as members, comment, post photos, rate recipes and spread word of those activities to contacts on existing...
[May 13, 2008, 16:53]
What's happened to OpenSocial?
Blog Not many others on the web shared my view, however, as Google soon showed an impressive list of supporters, including LinkedIn, Plaxo, Hi5, Ning and Salesforce.com and others joining MySpace. A common way of sharing widgets and applications with...
[June 30, 2008, 9:16]
Google's OpenSocial app hacked in 45 minutes
News Some of the sites included in the program are Engage.com, Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo and Salesforce.com. OpenSocial standardises the API for a number of different social-networking websites, allowing third-party developers...
[November 5, 2007, 8:20]
The Genome for the true social web?
Blog MySpace, LinkedIn and Facebook may have opened our eyes to the possibilities of social networking, but I have always been convinced that the REAL value for web users will come through smaller, more focused social networks appealing to specific...
[July 20, 2008, 18:03]
